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Phit for a Queen: A Female Athlete PodcastAuthor: Kara Shelman and Rebecca McConville
PHIT for a Queen is a podcast devoted to female athletes wanting to have it all: performance, health, intellect and time for self. Created by Rebecca McConville, RD, CSSD and Kara Shelman, LCSW, MPH at Centimano Counseling. Language: en Genres: Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Sports Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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The Female Athlete Triad
Episode 148
Friday, 11 February, 2022
Dr. Emily Kraus Sports Medicine Physician | Clinical Assistant Professor Dr. Emily Kraus is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford Children’s Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center. She is board-certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) sports medicine and takes a unique approach to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of sports injuries. She serves as the Director of the Stanford Female Athlete Program focused on female-specific translational research to answer fundamental physiological and sports performance questions important to improving the health and performance of girls and women, including the topics of bone health, the Female Athlete Triad, RED-S, running biomechanics, and mental health. Dr. Kraus also serves as the Medical Director of the Stanford Children’s Motion Analysis and Sports Performance Lab, focused on cutting-edge biomechanics research with a strong clinical application. She is involved in multiple Stanford IRB-approved research projects, including The Healthy Runner Project, a multicenter prospective interventional study focused on bone stress injury prevention in collegiate middle and long-distance runners. She also has research and clinical interests in youth sports specialization, endurance sports medicine, injury prevention, running biomechanics, and adaptive sports. Dr. Kraus proudly grew up a 3-sport high school athlete in small-town Nebraska and is now an avid runner and cyclist, completing 9 marathons, including Boston Marathon twice and California International Marathon in 2019 with a time of 2:50. With staying physically active as one of her personal passions, she recognizes how sports participation plays a valuable role in the physical, emotional, professional, and social development of a child and adolescent and is committed to maintaining these ideals for the next generation of youth athletes. So you know she's Legit: Stanford University School of Medicine Fellow, Sports Medicine Residency Program 2016 - 2017 Stanford University School of Medicine Resident, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency Program 2013 - 2016 University of Nebraska College of Medicine Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), Medicine 2008 - 2012 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Nutrition Sciences 2004 - 2008
